Posted on 09/14/2012 3:20:00 AM PDT by tobyhill
Heavily armed militants used a protest of an anti-Islam film as a cover and may have had help from inside Libyan security in their deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate, a senior Libyan official said Thursday.
As Libya announced the first four arrests, the clearest picture yet emerged of a two-pronged assault, with militants screaming "God is great!" as they scaled the consulate's outer walls and descended on the compound's main building.
The rampage killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans.
Meanwhile, Libyan authorities suspended all flights into and out of Benghazi Friday for what they said were security reasons.
Eastern Libya's deputy interior minister, Wanis el-Sharef, said Thursday a mob first stormed the consulate Tuesday night and then, hours later, raided a safe house in the compound just as U.S. and Libyan security arrived to evacuate the staff. That suggested, el-Sharef said, that infiltrators within the security forces may have tipped off the militants to the safe house's location.
The attacks were suspected to have been timed to coincide with the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist strike in the United States, el-Sharef added, with the militants using the film protest by Libyan civilians to mask their action.
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CBS News correspondent David Martin reports officials already have a prime suspect in the assault -- a radical Islamic group called Ansar al Sharia. The name means "Supporters of Islamic law," and U.S. officials describe it as an offshoot of al Qaeda.
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We knew this 48 hours ago! But See-B.S. is just getting around to it because they have been too busy smearing Romney and coordinating questions with other reporters to report the news.
The “fish” rots from the head, as the
previous DNC candidate once said.
These murders/rapes were planned by Ayers, Obama,
CODE PINK, al qaeda, the State DepT.
Dohrn, and MEANT to target Americans
on the Anniversary of the 911 Atrocities,
all as the DNC “September Surprise”.
I tried to comment under the article: “This is old news! Where have YOU been?” But the submit button would not work.
Perhaps Huma took the message and didn’t pass it along to her boss.
“may have had help from inside Libyan security in their deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate, a senior Libyan official said Thursday.”
No, REALLY?
I simply cannot fathom entrusting our diplomatic personnel’s safety to Libyan personnel. Frankly, I trust the folks who overthrew Qadaffi about as much as the folks who were supporting him.
thats pretty evedent by now. our guys were set up..and the government is not telling us the truth about what went down over there. still passing out money for kickbacks..
IOW, they Osama'd us better than we Osama'd them.
Kicked our ass and killed our people - after raping them, and then waited for the rescuers to arrive and killed them too.
Pathetic.
you’re the second person to say rape. i’ve seen nothing indicating that.
In one picture the ambassador had no pants on .
Rape is exactly what these people do when they rampage, they even did it to Kadafi .
Wrong. The American media used the film as an excuse for the mayhem.
The MSM wouldn't be able to find news on their own if it bit them on the ass...
The line the MSM is fed is this: 'it's Bush's fault, it's Romney's fault, it's the fault of conservative white men...'. The other main talking points are: 'it's NOT Obama's fault, it's not ANY democrats's fault', "it's not the fault of any black person - or any illegal or any Muslim." These press suck ups haven't caught the pattern yet...
The MSM wouldn't be able to find news on their own if it bit them on the ass...
The line the MSM is fed is this: 'it's Bush's fault, it's Romney's fault, it's the fault of conservative white men...'. The other main talking points are: 'it's NOT Obama's fault, it's not ANY democrats's fault', "it's not the fault of any black person - or any illegal or any Muslim." These press suck ups haven't caught the pattern yet... so each day the 'news' has to be tailored for them around the above memes...
Kadafi was raped with an eight inch long stiletto.
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